NYNow will feature 2,800 exhibitors across a variety of home furnishings categories, with 275 suppliers of mid- to high-end home textiles, including bed and bath fashions, table linens, kitchen textiles, towels, decorative accessories, area rugs, window treatments and decorative fabrics.

Most of them will be located within the Home Collection’s Home Furnishings + Textiles section on Level 3 of the Javits. Others will be showing in the Accent on Design and Tabletop + Gourmet Housewares sections,as well as in Lifestyle and Handmade Collections.

At the Javits, the market will include the “Open House” display, which features home products that reflect four key 2014-15 trends: Brass Tactics; Straight Out of Gibraltar; Prints Charming; and Lakeside Living . The exhibit, which is presented cooperatively by NY Now and media partner Progressive Business Media (parent company of Home & Textiles Today , Gifts and Decorative Accessories and Home Accents Today ) and color, trend and e-commerce partner One Kings Lane, will be presented at from Saturday, Aug. 16 through Wednesday, Aug. 20, in the Javits Center North Concourse.

A highlight of the week’s educational offerings will be “Color Forecast: 2014 and Beyond,” hosted by the New York City Chapter of the International Furnishings & Design Association (IFDA) on Aug. 18. The 90-minute session will feature DJ Carey, Cottages & Gardens editorial director, and Renee Hytry Derrington, group vp of design for Formica Group and Laminex Group creative director at Formica. A complete schedule of events, with links to registration, is available at www.nynow.com/programs .

Select NY Now Home exhibitors will receive “Home Textiles Market Week Best New Products” Awards in four categories – bath, bed, dining and home accessories. A panel of trade and consumer editors will determine winners in of each of these categories, plus one “Best of Market” distinction, and these five products will vie for “Best of Home” honors, determined by popular vote during NY Now. Voting begins Aug. 16 online at http://www.facebook.com/nynowmarket , and winners will be announced at the conclusion of the show.